More than 30 years after winning a National Book Critic Circle award for her first novel, “Love Medicine,” Louise Erdrich has won again. “LaRose,” the tale of two Ojibwe families linked by tragedy, took the NBCC fiction prize Thursday night in New York. Autobiography: “Lab Girl,” by Hope Jahren, whose book blends science writing with the story of her career as a geobiologist. The NBCC is an organization of nearly 1,000 reviewers and book section editors. Ron Charles is the editor of Book World and a member of the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

Source: Washington Post March 17, 2017 00:11 UTC